Essential Technology Services

Bond funds are supporting the district’s efforts to bolster the defence of its networks, devices and data from digital attacks.

Ongoing work

• We will implement an email security system that will help mitigate phishing, spoofing and other email risks
• The district Information Security Manager is developing a plan to prioritize and address the district’s most important cybersecurity needs

Completed work

• We upgraded our information security system to further protect data from unauthorized access
• We upgraded district data center compute, data protection, storage and telephony/VoIP systems.
• A security information and event management system was implemented to log, report and provide a dashboard on overall district cybersecurity
   

The district’s core business processes such as finance, human resources, procurement, payroll, operations and more will be integrated into one Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. This will allow the district to:

• Improve operational efficiency by replacing fragmented legacy systems with streamlined, standardized tools
• Support informed decisionmaking with real-time data visibility across departments
• Implement a data governance and cleanup process to refine data that will be transitioned to the new, integrated system

Student-facing systems such as Synergy will integrate into the new ERP system and will not be replaced as part of this work.
 

Update March 2026: Hardware has been purchased and is being phased in. We expect this work to be complete summer 2026.

We will install and configure new hardware in our data centers to improve our firewall. This work will result in a more secure network with modern protections.